Charter and Organization
Revised Draft 25 September 2016 Randall Tagg
This page serves to reproduce and expand ideas on the home page, with links to further details on plans for Psi*'s operations.
Mission Statement
The purpose of Psi* is to bring physics students’ inventiveness to fruition through material and creative support; to foster employer, investor, and community awareness of the potential for innovation by physics students; and to engage physics alumni in using their experience to aid student innovators.
Participants
The core of Psi* will consist of undergraduate physics majors and physics graduate students exploring wider career options. However, Psi* will be broadly inclusive, attracting physics minors and non-majors taking physics courses, pre-college students exposed to physics in or before high-school, and adult learners who are curious about the practical applications of physics. Physics alumni within industry, government labs, and universities will be sought as mentors and co-participants in physics-enabled innovation.
The operation and outcomes of Psi* are determined by its key activities and roles defined below.
Key Activities & Roles
ACTIVE STUDENT INNOVATION
1. Excite interest in physics as a source of innovation.
Role: Membership and Communications Coordinator
2. Jump-start and support physics students as innovators.
Role: Student Innovation Coordinator
3. Engage alumni as experts, mentors, sponsors and co-inventors
Role: Alumni Liaison & APS Local Links Coordinator
4. Incubate physics student ventures
Role: Business Incubation Coordinator
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
5. Provide a supporting physical infrastructure
Role: Hyperlab Coordinator
6. Provide a supporting computational infrastructure
Role: Computational and Embedded Systems Coordinator
7. Develop and manage websites and internet-based resources
Role: Website Coordinator
8. Create and support media production facilities
Role: Media Production Coordinator
KNOWLEDGE
9. Foster technical competencies and achievements.
Role: Learning Coordinator for Technical Competencies
10. Develop business know-how.
Role: Learning Coordinator for Business Competencies
11. Cultivate understanding of human needs, desires, and circumstances.
Role: Coordinator for Human-Oriented Design
12. Manage and disseminate knowledge assets.
Role: Knowledge Assets Coordinator
ORGANIZATIONAL ECOSYSTEM
13. Connect with employers, investors, business development centers, and professional societies.
Role: Industry Liaison and Networking Coordinator
14. Integrate programs with the community.
Role: Community Outreach Coordinator
15. Obtain and manage funding.
Role: Financial Coordinator
16. Maintain diversity, integrity, openness, and safety.
Role: Diversity, Integrity and Safety Coordinator
Appendices
Appendix A – Categories of Technical Competencies in Applied Physics and Engineering
See https://sites.google.com/site/inventorsyeara/
Appendix B Categories of Business Competencies